Just in time for Valentine’s Day, 10 weeks worth of passionate love letters between Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson.

Lyndon and Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor met in early September 1934 in Austin.  On their first date, Lyndon Johnson proposed and for the next 2 ½  months the two exchanged approximately 90 letters. They also exchanged photographs, including the ones shown here.

Lyndon was working as a Congressional Aide in Washington, D. C. and impatient to marry. Lady Bird, who was living in her hometown of Karnack, Texas, was cautious but called her suitor “electric” and was sure she didn’t want to lose him.

On November 17, 1934, Johnson and Lady Bird drove to San Antonio to “commit matrimony” as she would later describe it.

LBJ didn’t have a wedding band and asked Dan Quill, friend and Postmaster of San Antonio, to get one.  Quill bought a wedding band at the nearby Sears, Roebuck & Co. for $2.50. 

Lyndon Johnson and Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor married on November 17, 1934, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio.  They honeymooned in Mexico and were married for 39 years.

At 9am this morning, the LBJ library released all of the 1932 love letters between Lady Bird and Lyndon from the 10-week period between the time they met and they married.  You can read the letters and see the photos they exchanged at www.lbjlibrary.org.

-from the LBJ Library

 

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